House prices in Cork City
The median house in Cork City, Co. Cork sold for
€273,000
in 2025, across 53 sales that counted.
Every figure here comes from the Property Price Register, the official record of residential sales in Ireland, filed since 2010.
On the year before, the median fell 3.9%. Over the five years to 2025 it rose 20.8%.
2026 is still running. The median so far is €345,000 over 33 sales, which is not comparable with a full year.
Sales here carried the Eircode areas T12 and T23.
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What the sales say
The kind of place Cork City is
Read out of the sales themselves. None of this is a description of what Cork City is like to live in, which we have no way of knowing. It is what changed hands here.
In line with Cork
The median here sat within a quarter of the county median in 2025, so it tracks the county rather than standing apart from it.
A steady market
53 sales counted in 2025. Enough changes hands for the figures to hold up.
The shape of it
Year by year
- 2010€221,750
- 2011€135,000
- 2012€135,000
- 2013€106,000
- 2014€124,250
- 2015€127,753
- 2016€147,500
- 2017€195,000
- 2018€202,000
- 2019€221,000
- 2020€226,000
- 2021€243,500
- 2022€230,000
- 2023€237,500
- 2024€284,000
- 2025€273,000
- 2026*€345,000
| Year | Median | Middle half | Sales | New builds | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026part year | €345,000 | €286,000 to €400,000 | 33 | 8% | 7 |
| 2025 | €273,000 | €218,000 to €400,000 | 53 | 34% | 29 |
| 2024 | €284,000 | €237,500 to €405,000 | 55 | 0% | 4 |
| 2023 | €237,500 | €185,000 to €337,500 | 47 | 4% | 5 |
| 2022 | €230,000 | €175,000 to €295,000 | 77 | 1% | 3 |
| 2021 | €243,500 | €156,250 to €311,250 | 54 | 5% | 3 |
| 2020 | €226,000 | €172,250 to €308,750 | 48 | 2% | 1 |
| 2019 | €221,000 | €161,250 to €295,250 | 58 | 2% | 2 |
| 2018 | €202,000 | €140,000 to €293,000 | 73 | 0% | 1 |
| 2017 | €195,000 | €134,000 to €290,000 | 59 | 2% | 2 |
| 2016 | €147,500 | €85,000 to €287,500 | 44 | 0% | 2 |
| 2015 | €127,753 | €94,625 to €210,000 | 81 | 1% | 4 |
| 2014 | €124,250 | €87,000 to €172,875 | 50 | 2% | 3 |
| 2013 | €106,000 | €67,625 to €159,000 | 24 | 8% | 3 |
| 2012 | €135,000 | €73,750 to €200,625 | 10 | 9% | 2 |
| 2011 | €135,000 | €109,000 to €224,000 | 19 | 0% | 0 |
| 2010 | €221,750 | €187,500 to €259,750 | 12 | 0% | 1 |
Set aside counts the sales left out of each median: ones that were not at arm’s length, and ones where the recorded price left out the tax the buyer paid.
Most recent
The last 12 sales in Cork City
Addresses as filed for stamp duty, with the Eircode where the register carries one. Streets are linked where enough has sold on them for a page of their own.
- 1 Roseville Terrace, Old Blackrock Rd, Cork CityT12 K0HV4 September 2026 on Old Blackrock Rd€387,500
- 13 St Marys Ave, Off Cathedral Rd, Cork CityT23 P26W25 August 2026 on Off Cathedral Rd · also sold €260,000 in 2023€327,000
- 148 Lower Glanmire Rd, Cork City, CorkT23 H5K231 July 2026 on Lower Glanmire Rd€363,000
- Melrose, 24 Victoria Rd, Cork CityT12 R28C20 July 2026€1,740,000
- 18 Closes Rd, Fair Hill, Cork CityT23 T2X79 July 2026€289,000
- Surrender Of Leasehold Interest In, Property At Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City30 June 2026€55,000
- Roymont, 36 Sidney Park, Cork CityT23 K52T29 June 2026€550,000
- 53A South Terrace Court Apts, South Terrace, Cork CityT12 AY2726 June 2026 on South Terrace€400,000
- 143 Arderrow, Ballyvolane, Cork CityT23 NV2Dnew build16 June 2026 on Ballyvolane€321,586ex VAT
- 13 Merton, Model Farm Road, Cork Citynew build12 June 2026 on Model Farm Rd€396,476ex VAT
- 27 Lower Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork City, Co. CorkT12 C2C15 June 2026€230,000
- 111 Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City, Co CorkT23 C2H74 June 2026 on Lower Glanmire Rd€730,000
What your money buys
What sold, and at what price
Every counted sale in Cork City since 2023, sorted into bands. Recent years only, deliberately: over the whole register nearly half of everywhere looks cheap, because of what houses cost in 2012. The question this answers is whether anything at all sells for what you have now.
- €0k to €150k11 (6%)
- €150k to €250k53 (28%)
- €250k to €350k61 (32%)
- €350k to €500k37 (20%)
- €500k to €750k20 (11%)
- €750k and over6 (3%)
Where the sales are
Busiest streets and estates in Cork City
All 47 of them, counted over the whole register, so these span years rather than describing this one. A street needs five sales before it appears at all.
- Blarney St24 sales€159,000
- North Mall19 sales€94,625
- Model Farm Rd17 sales€375,000
- Blackrock Rd16 sales€342,500
- Friars Walk16 sales€332,000
- Gurranabraher16 sales€195,500
- Lower Glanmire Rd16 sales€158,500
- Blackpool15 sales€135,000
- Old Youghal Rd15 sales€150,000
- Richmond Hill14 sales€222,500
- Shandon St13 sales€130,000
- South Douglas Rd13 sales€230,000
- Wellington Rd13 sales€240,000
- Ballyvolane10 sales€242,000
- Farranree10 sales€140,000
- Bishopstown9 sales€341,000
- Blackrock9 sales€235,000
- Pouladuff Rd9 sales€235,000
- South Terrace9 sales€231,000
- Sundays Well9 sales€250,000
- Western Rd9 sales€435,000
- Bandon Rd8 sales€155,750
- Barrack St8 sales€175,000
- Dillons Cross8 sales€210,750
- Douglas Rd8 sales€350,000
- Togher8 sales€230,000
- Turners Cross8 sales€281,000
- Boreenmanna Rd7 sales€430,000
- Friar Street7 sales€195,000
- Glasheen Rd7 sales€230,500
- Magazine Rd7 sales€285,000
- Old Blackrock Rd7 sales€300,000
- St Lukes7 sales€285,000
- The Louth7 sales€365,000
- Wolfe Tone Street7 sales€170,000
- Ballyphehane6 sales€323,500
- Montenotte6 sales€342,500
- North Abbey St6 sales€94,000
- Upper John St6 sales€178,162
- Wilton6 sales€297,500
- Ballintemple5 sales€177,500
- Fairhill5 sales€147,000
- Georges Quay5 sales€255,000
- Greenmount5 sales€155,000
- Off Barrack Street5 sales€160,000
- Off Cathedral Rd5 sales€230,000
- Silversprings5 sales€240,000
New against second hand
New builds in Cork City
In 2025 the median new build in Cork City sold for €405,500, against €273,000 for a second hand home, which puts new builds 49% above the rest of the market here. That is over 27 new build sales and 53 second hand ones.
The new build figure is reconstructed rather than recorded. A new home goes on the register at its price before Value Added Tax, so the filed figure has been multiplied by 1.135 to get back to what the buyer paid. New build prices across the country.
The other side of it
Renting in Cork City
The average rent registered in Cork City was €1,731 a month in October to December 2025. By bedrooms, by property type and quarter by quarter.
That is an average over tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, and the figure above it is a median over sales. Two different statistics about two different sets of homes, so nothing here divides one by the other.
Elsewhere in Cork
Renting instead
If you are renting in Cork City
Rent is capped everywhere in the State now, at 2% or inflation a year, whichever is lower. Work out what your own rent can rise to or read what replaced Rent Pressure Zones.
How the place was worked out
The register has no town column. It has an address, and the place is read out of it: the county is stripped off and the part left at the end is the locality. Addresses that end in a street name rather than a place are not counted towards anywhere.
A place appears here only where at least forty sales were recorded in it, and a figure is printed for a year only where at least ten sales sat behind it.
Source: Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 9 September 2026.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
How to read an entry on the Property Price Register
The date is not the sale date, the address is whatever the solicitor typed, and about 15.2% of entries in our town-level comparison sample carry no Eircode. What each field means.
Why the price on the register is not what the buyer paid
About 10.4% of sales in our town-level comparison sample are filed without the VAT the buyer paid on top. A €400,000 new build appears as €352,423. How to spot one and what to add back.
What a house actually gained between two sales
1,099 properties in our town-level comparison sample have sold more than once. Matching the two sales gives a real gain on a real house, which is a different thing to a national index.